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A year barely two months old has ripped twice at Chicago's heart. As word spread Sunday that Minnie Minoso had died, conversations turned back five-plus weeks to the loss of Ernie Banks. Fitting, perhaps, that the White Sox's ambassador-for-life had excused himself so soon after the Cubs' ambassador-for-life had done the same. Except that this city, this world, needs more such gentlemen, not two fewer. Spin back to late January, when Minoso spoke factually, but also generously, of the just-departed Banks: "The city belonged to him. Everywhere you move, they don't just talk about him like a ballplayer. They talk about him like a person." Had the...

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